Widen your knowledge base in important technical areas which may not be the primary focus of your day job

Money Laundering checks

What to do when you win or lose a client

What to do when you receive a complaint

Ethical issues

Meet experienced professionals...

... in a safe environment (no clients, bills or timesheets to deal with!) stemming from many difference backgrounds and practices. All will have an interest, as you will, in working towards a better tax system in the widest sense.

High street practitioners

SMEs

Big 4 Partners

Law firms

Industry and Commerce

Professional bodies

NGOs

HMRC/HMT

Think technically...

Learn and contribute to leading edge thinking by joining one of our Committees:

Recommend and input on HMRC policy

Raise your own professional profile

Get involved with current debates on how the tax system can be changed or practices improved

Discuss public and confidential matters with leading experts in the field

Liaise with HMRC, HM Treasury and the European Commission in an environment different from day-to-day practice

Time spent on Committee work may count towards CPD non-reading requirements

Volunteer to represent the UK at the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE) and attend bi-annual conferences on the Continent

Educate...

The CIOT is an educational charity and the leading professional body in the UK concerned solely with taxation

Contribute to our examination process by:

Helping keep our syllabus up-to-date and our methods of examining relevant to the tax profession
Promote you firm's charitable works by getting involved and you will both reap the benefits

Volunteer...

To see what volunteer opportunities there are within the CIOT, please contact Peter Fanning at ceo [at] tax.org.uk (subject: Volunteering%20opportunities)